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TwitLinks launched, becomes unofficial Techmeme of Twitter

If you’ve ever tried to follow the Twitter updates of more than one person, you’ll appreciate what TwitLinks has set out here to do. Using advanced alien-technology (or maybe RSS feed updates, I’m not sure), Twitlinks gathers all the most recent Twitter updates of leading tech industry pundits and arranges them in the fashion of more »

YouTube updates Insight, adds Discovery metrics

If you recall, YouTube recently added a new feature for its users to know more about who are watching their videos, when and where from. They called it YouTube Insight, and it works in the background, gathering data as you keep on uploading new videos and new people watch your old ones. They said they more »

Picasa Web Albums now available for Windows Mobile 6

Windows Mobile 6 touchscreen device owners have a new reason to get excited. Google has announced that Picasa Web Albums just got a major update that offers a specially-optimized mobile interface for WinMo touchscreen devices. Now you can view slideshows, community photos, and all of the other nice mobile features of Picasa, all on a more »

Craigslist learns to blog, tries to shut down evil twin

Craigslist launched its official blog several days ago, giving itself a new way to reach out to users, other than through founder Craig Newmark’s own personal web site. Basically, it’s a stripped down version of a blog with a very minimalist design, rudimentary comment system, and it doesn’t even have its own RSS feed. Now this event in itself would’ve been news-worthy right off the bat, but something else in relation to this is happening at the same time in the Interwebs, and causing CL quite a hassle.

This “something else” is the existence of an unofficial Craigslist blog, called CraigslistBlog.org, which recently added the moniker “unofficial” at the end of its name to appease CL CEO Jim Buckmaster’s pleas. Here’s an excerpt of the short email exchange between CL CEO and CraigslistBlog.org webmaster, Tim.

Flickr helps find your friends with, uh, Find Your Friends feature

Flickr figured it’s about time we found out who among our friends also keep online photo albums. If you’d like an easy way to search for people you know on Flickr’s user base, you can do so now with a convenient, and aptly titled Find Your Friends Feature. All you have to do is access more »

Dawdlr to let users Twitter at a “snail’s pace”

If you’re interested in seeing a mix between online services Postsecret and Twitter.com, dawdlr is here at your disposal. Like Twitter, dawdlr is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question. But instead of Twitter’s infamous “what are you doing?” question, dawdlr asks its users in more broader terms. Which is, what more »

Wikipedia congratulates self for hitting 10M article mark, wishes it was real money

Publishing 10 million articles across 250 languages is not an easy task, but Wikipedia has managed to do exactly that. OK, maybe collectively millions of volunteer workers from around the world did the job for them, but still, this is an event that cannot go uncelebrated. And to think, a lot of other web sites are struggling with just hitting their 1-millionth article mark.

Wikipedia is happy that it has reached it’s 10-millionth article with a Nicholas Hilliard write-up, made by user Pataki Márta on the Hungarian Wikipedia web site. And while it’s nice to see Wikipedia steadily increase in popularity and volume of content, one can’t help but feel bad for them knowing that they are barely able to sustain their growing business from within. If you haven’t noticed, Wikipedia serves entirely advertising-free pages, which could’ve possibly raked them millions in ad revenue every single month. But remaining true to its noble causes, Wikipedia strays away from the prevalent digital media route, and instead asks users for donations and volunteer service (which, obviously would not be enough for a multi-million page view per day kind of Web site like Wikipedia).

Mozilla Firefox, the platform you’ve never considered

With over 165 million people in their community of users, Mozilla and it’s well loved Firefox browser should surprise no one when they say they mean business. After all, Firefox is the one tool that links everything we as Internet consumers do together, from Flickr to Amazon to MySpace to Facebook. But when was the more »